From $200,000 first prizes to modest medals, Ultra distance classics to simple sprints, sharply frozen stills to speedy blurs, pavement to rigged dirt, elite world records to modest men and women simply trying to finish, triathletes provided beautiful opportunities for photography in 2010.
All photographs © Timothy Carlson
Luke Bell charges in California’s Borrego desert on his Argon 18.
Age groupers fly down the causeway bridge at Clearwater.
Michael Raelert proved to the world that he is not only a world beating runner but also a first rate cyclist at Oceanside (first off the bike), Wildflower and Clearwater.
Elite cyclist charges around a sharp corner near the Texas state capitol at the Cap-Tex Triathlon in Austin.
Chrissie Wellington set a sizzling fast, world best-ever time for the Ironman distance bike leg of 4:36 at Roth – and also went 4:47 at Tempe.
Denmark is mostly flat. But this steep, 300-foot incline in the middle of the Challenge Copenhagen bike leg is the exception that proves the rule.
A Mark Allen coached triathlete during a Boulder training ride.
A flat course, a draft-legal format, and a world-class ITU men’s field in search of the $200,000 top prize made for a long line of riders at Hy-Vee in Des Moines Iowa.
Julie Dibens, one of triathlon’s greatest woman triathlete cyclists of all time, working out on the rollers at home in Boulder, accompanied by her dog Lucky.
Kathy Winkler of Marin, California, is charging up a hill on Day 2 of Ultraman.
Riding past Brainard Lake in Colorado.
Sarah Haskins riding at Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.
Scott Tinley has a titanium hip and has long retired from his legendary professional career. But he looks like he stepped out smiling from a 1980s time machine riding at Scott Tinley’s Adventures race in October.
Mountain biking past Lake Lopez near San Luis Obispo at Scott Tinley’s Adventures.
Racing at the San Francisco Triathlon at Treasure Island.
Age group competitor crests the causeway at the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Clearwater.
Elite women kicking up eye-smarting wakes while riding over the rug at Hy-Vee.
Timo Bracht offers the chaka sign riding past cactus on his way to victory at Ironman Arizona.
Riding past a picturesque swirl of trees in Hilo midway through the 171-mile bike leg on Day 2 of Ultraman.
A Wounded Warrior veteran is riding hard at the Cap-Tex Triathlon as a patriotic Austin spectator waves Old Glory.
